Yes, Danny Pink! For pity’s sake, you can’t even escape the utter dullard of a character when he’s dead!!! The Dream Crabs had been laying dormant for years but once this crew had seen them, and then started thinking about them, it gave them the energy to come back to life.Īlas, to avoid thinking about a coherent script, early on Steven Moffat even gets one of the tertiary characters to reference Ridley Scott’s Alien to save him having to do any real work in the creation of this episode.Īnd when you’ve had a Facehugger, sorry, Dream Crab, attach itself to you, you get mentally transported into another world altogether, so this is like the Nexus from Star Trek Generations, and in Clara’s Nexus, she’s enjoying a happy Christmas morning with Danny Pink. He infers that all those infirmary patients were once their colleagues and are now afflicted. These baddies are the Dream Crabs who can alter the perception of those around them and, according to The Doctor, everyone who thinks they’re alive is actually dying. Post-opening credits, we’re on the North Pole and with a team of scientists where, for no apparent reason, Shona ( Faye Marsay) is walking through an their infirmary, while Slade’s Merry Christmas Everybody plays, as if it’s some sort of test she has to complete, but to what end? There are some Alien-like baddies wake up in the beds who exhibit “mind piracy”, meaning that the visual optic nerve is being streamed into the brains of those enemies in the room, and this is also happening now to Clara and The Doctor since they turned up in the meantime.
After a rather tedious exchange, The Doctor ( Peter Capaldi) turns up and whisks her into the TARDIS, the Doctor then warns him off as he knows what’s coming…
Last Christmas begins with perennial annoyance Nick Frost as Santa Claus/Father Christmas (his character is referred to as both, even though the credits only call him the former), when he’s spotted by Clara ( Jenna Coleman).